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Game of Thrones
Average IMDB Rating by Season
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Game of Thrones
Average IMDB Rating by Season
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Game of Thrones
Average Number of US Viewers by Season
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Average Number of US Viewers by Season
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Average IMDB Rating by Average Viewers per Episode
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Average IMDB Rating and Average Viewers per Episode
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Average IMDB Rating by Season
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Notes
All data for average user ratings courtesy of IMDB. All data for average audience size courtesy of Wikipedia. Data were collected in early June, 2020.
To build the final dataset, I started by creating episode lists for each show from Wikipedia. Wikipedia has a general template "List of [Show] episodes" that they use to catalog episode titles, sequence, air dates, and viewer numbers. I then cross-referenced this list against IMDB pages for each season.
Occasionally the two sites disagreed on episode counts, usually due to special 2-part episodes. In cases where Wikipedia included two separate episodes but IMDB did not, I collapsed the data into a single entry (e.g., the first few episodes of season 4 of The Office). An exception to this rule was made for the 30 Rock finale. Wikipedia lists two separate episodes for the finale, while IMDB collapses them into one. I included both records because Wikipedia lists a different title and different writers for each episode.
Finally, I renumbered episodes/seasons sequentially within the dataset to prevent gaps in charting. As a result, my episode numbers may slightly differ from other datasets.